I was hoping they'd kind of end it after this season. I guess the only good thing is, they now potentially know where the end point is, and hopefully that will help the story line.

i wouldn't be surprised if it went 2 or 3 more seasons. it still gets good ratings, and jason segal is the only one on the show who seems to have other, legitimate stuff to do - yet they've managed to keep him around this long.

I was hoping they'd kind of end it after this season. I guess the only good thing is, they now potentially know where the end point is, and hopefully that will help the story line.

i wouldn't be surprised if it went 2 or 3 more seasons. it still gets good ratings, and jason segal is the only one on the show who seems to have other, legitimate stuff to do - yet they've managed to keep him around this long.

I don't think they will. I think next year will be the end. I've read an interview where the producer always viewed this show as an 8 or 9 season show, mainly because it is set in real time, and there is only so much story to tell until the kids are born, and he didn't want to go much past that. He said depending on if CBS/the actors wanted to go, he wanted to either end the show where Ted met the mother (this season), or go one season into the birth of the first child(next season, if there is one).

i'd be curious about other long running sitcoms and ultimately why they called it quits? i imagine it's typically due to the talent wanting to leave to do other things. i don't know how much the artistic aspect of story telling would come into play.

shmenguin wrote:i'd be curious about other long running sitcoms and ultimately why they called it quits? i imagine it's typically due to the talent wanting to leave to do other things. i don't know how much the artistic aspect of story telling would come into play.

I think it's a mixture of both. I think of shows like Married with Children, where all the actors were still on board, but the stories just became redundent. So the network axes it.

Okay. I'm developing a huge crush in Willies wife from Duck Dynasty, Korie. I don't care how much money they have, these dudes can't possibly look or act like this in everyday life to reel this stuff in

FreeCandy44 wrote:You guys are brutal today. If he wants to like Glee...let him. I can think of many many worse things.

Thank you and watching Jersey Shore would be worse in my opinion.

I will start by saying that i don like glee...but the girlfriend does so i watch it. Jersey shore would be much worse. If the girlfriend liked that, she would just be some girl i dated a few times. Seriously, that would be a dealbreaker. And i am not a all someone who feels that strongly about...anything really.

the wicked child wrote:Totally forgot that David Schwimmer was in Band of Brothers.

"Passes, revoked".

He was at least a central character for a little bit...the real surprise was seeing Jimmy Fallon for like, 30 seconds...I was all "hey, what the?!...Is that Jimmy Fallon?! Wow...it totally is and...oh ok he is gone now."

I'm not really a fan of his or anything, but it was just such a surprise...kind of makes sense why he doesn't do any other dramatic roles...I am always so used to him playing the idiot/sarcastic/joker or whatever that it kind of distracts from the rest of the scene...like he is going to break out into his idiot/wise guy SNL Boston character and be all like "heyyyyyyyyyy...you guys need some ammo or something??? Ill give you some ammo for your sister...heeeyyyyyyy!!!"

I don't remember where I saw it - it must have been his show - but Fallon told a story about how he couldn't drive the jeep in that scene. He kept stalling out and finally drove it enough to keep Dale Dye and Tom Hanks (who directed that episode) from yelling at him.

My wife and I started watching Fringe on amazon over the weekend. We're about 7 episodes in, and really like it. Sort of an updated X-files. The acting is getting better as the characters start to get fleshed out. We're happy we tried it.